Foreign Correspondents Club of China

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New York, October 14, 2014--The arrest of a Chinese reporter working for a German weekly is cause for alarm and signals a threat to other Chinese journalists working for foreign media in China, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Zhang Miao, an arts reporter for the German magazine Die Zeit, has been in jail since October 2 and was accused on Monday of "committing provocative activities and creating troubles."

When China hosted the summer Olympics in 2008 it promised greater press freedom, but six years later conditions for international journalists are increasingly more restrictive, as evidenced by a report released today by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China.

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The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China released at the end of May its annual report on conditions for international journalists working in the country. As we have done in the past, we're posting this year's report as a PDF. The takeaway is that conditions have certainly not gotten better and many feel they have gotten worse, according to the 123 respondents to the survey, slightly more than half of its membership of 236.

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The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China
(Beijing) published the findings of its annual visa survey last week. The findings are grim but come as
no surprise following the Chinese government's showdown late last year with
members of the foreign press.

Many international correspondents in China believe reporting
conditions have worsened over the past year, according to a new survey by the Foreign
Correspondents' Club of China that also finds the Chinese government has "increasingly
resorted to threats and intimidation against foreign media."

Among
the first concerns a journalist may have on coming to China as a
foreign correspondent is how to communicate with the Chinese people, the
majority of whom do not speak a word of English. Finding a "news assistant" is
usually the answer.